Sophie of Upper Lotharingia

Events

Date of Birth: about 1018.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Poull (p. 73) states that Sophie was aged about 75 at her death. Parisot (p. 168) argues that, although we don’t know the birth year of Sophie, the fact that the monk who wrote the chronicle of Saint-Mihiel between 1035 and 1040 called her and her sister puellae implies that they were not older than 12 then. Glocker (p. 340) gives about 1020 or 1025.

Date of Death: 21 January 1093.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Poull (p. 73).

Place of Burial: the abbey church of Saint-Mihiel.

The place is given by Poull (p. 73).

Relationships

Father: Frederick II, duke of Upper Lotharingia.

This relationship is given by Parisot (p. 166), by Parisse, by Glocker (p. 343), and by Poull (p. 69).

Mother: Mathilde of Swabia.

This relationship is given by Parisse, by Glocker (p. 340), and by Poull (p. 69).

Spouse: Louis de Mousson.

This relationship is given by Glocker (p. 340).

Children:

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Bruno (died young).

Thierry (died 1103) married Ermentrude of Burgundy.

Louis (died after 1080).

Frederic (died 29 June 1091) married Agnès de Maurienne.

Mathilde married Hugo, count of Dagsburg.

Sophie married Volmar, count.

Beatrice (died 26 October 1092) married Berthold von Zähringen, count in Breisgau, duke of Carinthia.

References

Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).

Parisse, Michel. “Friedrich, Hzbg. von Oberlothringen” in Lexikon des Mittelalters.

Poull, Georges. La Maison souveraine et ducale de Bar, (Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1994).